Ottawa to Curtail Non-Essential Industry for War
A cabinet source says government will accelerate curtailment of civilian production to boost war output. ministers Isley Ralston Howe press urgent shift, citing 2,000,000 civilian workers with 500,000 to be diverted to war work and services. Howe gives a specific example of wholesale and retail trades needing downsizing.
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Ottawa
J. L. Isley
J. L. Ralston
C.D. Howe
Mr. Howe
Guerilla Raids Report From London Front
Leslie Kirch returning from Russia described farm folk staging guerilla raids on Germans. Winners armed with axes and clubs crawled through lines, killed six sentries and carried guns and ammunition hidden with horse harness. They aided further raids, killing 18 Nazis and bringing home 17 prisoners.
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London
Leslie Kirch
Russia
Kirch
Canadian Firemen Volunteer for Overseas Duty Arrive in Britain
The first contingent of Canadian fire fighters who volunteered for overseas duty has landed safely in Britain. War Services Minister Thorson received a cable from British Secretary of State Herbert Morrison thanking Canada for the gesture. The message said firemen will join soldiers sailors and airmen alongside British comrades. London reports that three French women scientists in Paris were sentenced to death and seven men executed for Free French activities.
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Ottawa
Britain
War Services
Thorson
Herbert Morrison
National Fire Service
London
France
Lisbon
Paris
Women repatriated from Germany to Canada in international exchange
Ottawa announced the return of ten Canadian women from Germany under an exchange agreement. They travel aboard the steamship Drottningholm expected to reach New York this week. Seven were passengers on the Zamzam sunk by a German raider in the South Atlantic on April 17. The others were interned and released after Canadian representations. One Zamzam passenger was Olga Gottermson of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America.
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Canada
Ottawa
Dominion
Germany
External Affairs Department
Listen
New York
South Atlantic
Berlin
Olga Gottermson
Norwegian Lutheran Church of America
Minneapolis
Minn
Elsie Gottormson
Nai
War Budget Sparks Broad Canadian Support Across Provinces
Canadian leaders from Premier Hart of British Columbia to Premier Hepburn of Ontario back the austerity budget as essential for wartime victory. McGill economist F Cyril James calls enforced savings constructive, noting reduced wartime spending now and potential postwar revival funding.
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Canada
John Hart
British Columbia
Hepburn
Ontario
Aberhart
Alberta
Dominion
Thane Campbell
Prince Edward Island
F. Cyril James
McGill University
Persian Gulf port speeds supplies to Russia
United States noncombatants push a new Persian Gulf port at Basra to speed deliveries to Soviet armies. The site, once sand and swamp, now handles hundreds of bombers and thousands of trucks as part of a vast transport network. Rail links are also advancing to connect Teheran with Tabriz, completing an all rail route from Batum to Moscow.
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Basra
Iraq
Persian Gulf
Russia
United States
Teheran
Iran
Tabriz
Gulf of Batum
Caucausian Oil Centre
Tiflis
Moscow
Imperial Tobacco to keep gift cigarette prices for troops
A spokesman for Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada says federal budget tobacco tax increases will not raise the price of cigarettes sent as gifts to Canadian armed forces overseas. The note clarifies pricing remains unchanged despite new taxes.
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Montreal
Imperial Tobacco Company Limited of Canada
Publisher appeals to draft board to retain editor
Marshal Field publisher of PM delayed the inducton of 41 year old editor Ralph Ingersoll for at least two weeks after he appeared for a final physical at Fort Jay Governors Island. Field defended the move saying the newspaper is valuable in wartime and Ingersoll’s leadership is badly needed.
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New York
Marshal Field
Ralph Ingersoll
Ingersoll
Fort Jay
Governors Island
Field
Chicago
Wheat for Greece: Canada to ship 15000 tons monthly
Ottawa reports monthly shipments of Canadian wheat to Greece totaling about 15 000 tons to feed starving Greeks. Six bushels per person is indicated, with some cargo already arriving. Swedish Red Cross will supervise voyages aboard Swedish vessels sailing from a Canadian port to Greece under neutral conduct and access through the blockade with German and Italian approval.
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Ottawa
Canada
Greece
Tiltah
Canada Forecasts Cheerful WarFinance Outlook In Budget
Finance Minister Hiley says Canada’s outlook for financing war purchases from the United States is brighter than last year. He warns against relaxing travel and exchange restrictions, cites Hyde Park agreement as key to payments. He notes travel restrictions have saved over $106 million in U S dollars since imposition.
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Ottawa
Canada
United States
Hiley
House of Commons
Hyde Park
Equal Priority For British And U S Troops In War Supply
London reported Oliver Lyttelton said British and U S troops in the same theatre will receive equal priority on American supplies. He outlined a combined production and resources board to maximize ship economy and integrate two nations resources. Melbourne noted 100 new airstrromes built for Allied forces in Australia in three months with many more planned. The Allied works council has 1500 large projects and 10000 smaller jobs on its program.
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London
Oliver Lyttelton
House of Commons
U.S
Washington
Lyttelton
Combined Production and Resources Board
Melbourne
Australia
Hugh Casey
General Headquarters
Allied Works Council
Submarine Base May Be Located on Brazil Coast
Reports say Axis submarines may be operating from a base in Maranhao state Brazil with naval and air forces conducting a minute search of the Gurupy delta near the Maranhao Para boundary. Attacks along the Brazilian coast have lessened after May sinkings, with no June submarines sighted yet.
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Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Maranhao
Gurupy River
Para
Gurupy
Natal
Guianas
United States
Red Poll Association Elects Officers at Edmonton Meeting
Wilmott McComb of Hayfield Manitoba was reelected president of the Canadian Red Poll Association. Other officers named include Vice President John R Atkinson St Albert Alta and secretary treasurer P J Hoffman Annaheim Sask. Directors include A D Pocock Moose Jaw and L H Reeve Dafoe. Grants were approved to support feeding steers for stock shows and fairs at Brandon Weyburn and Armstrong.
Danger Of Japanese Bases On Aleutians
United States and Canada eye a looming sea and air battle in the Aleutians as Japan eyes Attu Kiska and Kamchatka. Russian and Chinese observers weigh Sevastopol, Kharkov, and Caucasus oil priorities as German and Japanese campaigns intertwine. The period notes Hitler seeks Sevastopol and the Caucasus oil fields, while Japan may launch a Siberian push as German strains mount.
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Washington
Navy Department
Attu
Kiska
Aleutians
Russia
Kamchatka Peninsula
Siberia
Hitler
Caucasus
Mosul
Ukraine
Black Sea
Siberian
Estevan Point Lighthouse Keeper Dares Shellfire to Save Settlement
Victoria Colonist reports lighthouse keeper Robert Mitchell Lally climbed a 50 foot tower to extinguish Estevan Point beacon as shells hit nearby. Two radio operators and families hid in the woods while news of the attack was sent to authorities and the light was finally put out.
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Victoria
Vancouver Island
Estevan Point Dominion
G. M. Campbell
Port Alberni
B.C
Robert Mitchell Lally
Little
Campbell
Sally
Brian Harrison
Edward Redford
Redford
Bomb kills internees at Royallieu near Compiegne
An unidentified plane dropped a bomb on a cluster of concentration camps at Royallieu near Compiegne killing two internees and injuring several others. The attack targeted the camp complex as World War II tensions rise across occupied France.
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Vichy
Royallieu
Compiegne
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